JUDGE JENNIFER B. COFFMAN'S
KANGAROO COURT

Hayes Testimony Confirms Fifth-Column-Induced Political Retirements

Former Drug Dealer, Former Mental Patient
Testify for Government

by J. Orlin Grabbe

The government's case against Charles S. Hayes
is based on the testimony of a former drug dealer and also
a former mental patient, and possibly falsified NCIC
documents. But Judge Jennifer B. Coffman is not
interested in declaring a mistrial.

Meanwhile the Justice Department moved into
crisis mode as Hayes began to name names under oath in
U.S. District Court in London, Kentucky. Assistant U.S.
Attorney Martin Hatfield turned his back on the witness,
walked to his table, pulled up his socks, and collapsed
into a sulk. Judge Coffman quickly adjourned for the day
after Hayes confirmed the looting of an illegal Swiss bank
account held by Vince Foster, former Deputy White
House Counsel, whose dead body was discovered in Ft.
Marcy Park.

Hayes, a former CIA agent with forty years of
experience, heads a group of computer hackers called the
Fifth Column who track bribes, payoffs, and kickbacks
made to corrupt politicians and government officials.
Hayes acquired the nom de guerre "Angel of Death" for
his role in bringing about the early retirement of corrupt
politicians.

Other individuals named by Hayes as recipients of
Fifth Column financial packets include former Sen.
William Cohen (R) of Maine, who is currently President
Bill Clinton's nominee for Secretary of Defense, and Rep.
Pat Schroeder (D) of Colorado.

Hayes and The Fifth Column have been featured
in articles by James Norman in Media Bypass and
Washington Weekly, and on the World-Wide Web Home
Page of J. Orlin Grabbe (http://www.aci.net/kalliste/).

Evidence developed in connection with the trial
points to a broad conspiracy by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Department of Justice to frame
Hayes on falsified evidence. These U.S. government
agencies claimed Hayes had contracted to kill his son,
John Anthony Hayes, with whom he was involved in an
inheritance dispute. He is charged with violations of
Title 18, United States Code, Section 1958--using the
telephone and U.S. mail in interstate commerce in a
murder-for-hire scheme.

Appearing for the Prosecution is FBI Agent David
R. Keller, who at an October 25, 1996, bond hearing had
claimed former CIA agent Chuck Hayes and former
Wharton professor J. Orlin Grabbe were the same person,
and that the media designation "Angel of Death" proved
Hayes was a menace to society. The Prosecution later
admitted both assertions were the result of a faulty and
inadequate investigation.

But what they failed to admit to was Keller's own
background. Investigators working on behalf of the
Defendant have identified Keller himself as a former
member of a motorcycle gang called The Outlaws, among
whom he both used and sold heroin, even while he
informed on other gang members on behalf of the FBI.
The government consequently, they say, must certainly
have a tight ring in Keller's nose. (Keller's nickname in
high school, say these investigators, was "Cheese".)

Also appearing on behalf of the government was
Lawrence Myers, a former writer for Media Bypass, a
magazine which had built its circulation by celebrating
Hayes' exploits. But in August 1996 Myers secretly
contacted an Alabama office of the FBI with the story that
Hayes was pressuring him to find a hit man to kill one of
Hayes' sons. Myers himself admitted on the witness
stand that the notion that a man of Hayes' background
would use Myers as the conduit to find a hit man was
absurd, but nevertheless claimed that was what happened.

The government acknowledged that Myers had a
misdemeanor conviction from walking out on a meal check. But
the government noted this happened long ago, so
nevertheless wanted to use him to testify against Hayes.
But what the government failed to bring up was that
Myers was also convicted on a more recent felony
charge, and moreover had spent time in a mental
institution.

In 1986 Myers was involved in an attempt to
extort $5000 from a person in Alameda, California.
Because Myers stated he would have "Green Berets kill
every fag and every drug dealer" within a certain
perimeter, Myers was confined to a mental institution.
After release, Myers pleaded guilty to a felony charge of
grand theft, and placed on probation for 18 months. He
apparently did not meet all the conditions of his
probation, and it is possible there is still a warrant out for
his arrest. (Myers had also once worked at Wackenhut
repairing copy machines.)

In addition, in a curious coincidence to the charges
brought against Hayes, Myers had worked for a small
paper in Morristown, Tennessee, where he was involved
in a case related to a murder-for-hire scheme. Gatewood
Galbraith, Hayes' attorney, noted that Lawrence Myers
has had a pattern of getting media jobs, then having
charges brought against people after he has conducted
interviews with them. This includes members of some
paramilitary groups.

Judge Coffman went out of her way to limit
Galbraith's cross-examination of Myers, in particular
denying him the right to bring out Meyer's connection to
Timothy McVeigh, accused in the bombing of a federal
building in Oklahoma.

Only with the jury absent did she allow Galbraith
to point out that Myers was able to get an interview with
Timothy McVeigh when no other journalist in the country
was similarly allowed to. Myers was undoubtedly a
government agent, Galbraith said, and his government
connections would impeach his testimony against Charles
Hayes.

Despite the Justice Department's
misrepresentation of Myers' background, Judge Coffman
denied a Defense motion for a mistrial. She also again
denied bond, flip-flopping in her reasons for this denial.

U.S. Magistrate Judge J. B. Johnson, Jr., had
signed the original arrest warrant for Hayes, and also
presided over Hayes' bond hearing. Johnson used
Keller's affidavit and statements in an article written by
another person ("The Dickheads Are Getting Desperate"
by J. Orlin Grabbe), but attributed to Hayes, as the basis
for denying Hayes bond. Johnson said he made his
decision based on the affidavit of David Keller, and did
not give great credit to the testimony of Hayes' ex-wife.

Judge Coffman said she had no reason to
doubt Hayes claims of more than 40 years experience
with the CIA, but that this just made him a greater flight
risk. (In other words, because she believed Hayes
statements were correct, therefore his other statements
about not being a flight risk or a threat to his son were
incorrect.) But when the "flight risk" thesis was carefully
disputed by Gatewood Galbraith (who pointed out Hayes
service to his country, and the recent evidence accruing to
Hayes favor), Coffman then said she was denying bond
based on the testimony of Hayes' ex-wife and some taped
statements of Hayes.

The alleged assassination target, John Anthony
Hayes, testified that he did not feel threatened by his
father. After noting this testimony, Coffman then choose
to ignore it in her decision to deny bond.

When the trial began, Judge Coffman said she
herself felt "threatened" because she had received letters
in response to an Internet posting ("Federal Justice in
London, Kentucky" by J. Orlin Grabbe). She said she
turned all such letters over to the U.S. Marshal. Coffman
strongly admonished jurors not to log onto the Internet,
and wanted to know if any potential jurors were familiar
with Media Bypass. (Since email is the largest type of
Internet traffic, it was not clear if jurors were supposed to
refrain also from reading letters delivered to them by the
U.S. Post Office.)

"There is prosecutorial misconduct in this case, of
which Lawrence Myers is just the `tip of the iceberg',"
according to Gatewood Galbraith. He points out that the
U.S. Attorney's office has not conducted due diligence,
and that Prosecution's Exhibits 1 and 2 were both based
on Lawrence Myers' testimony. He also indicated that
the NCIC report on Myers produced in Louisville, KY,
appeared to have been intentionally falsified in
presentation.

Even so, Judge Coffman declined to declare a
mistrial or grant bond. She instead granted a motion for a
continuance in the case until Jan. 27.

Judge Coffman also denied Hayes' motion to act
as his own co-counsel. And she denied Hayes' request to
hold a press conference.